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Danielle Hohmeier had to get a twitter account for her marketing classes at MU. “At first, it was sort of overwhelming,” says, Hohmeier, BJ ’09. “If you don’t know who to follow or if you’re not following the right people, it is pretty much useless.” Hohmeier must have figured it out because in May she was told she was one of 18 people given a chance to become MTV’s first twitter jockey, or TJ.

Fast. Up-tempo. Fun to watch. Sound familiar? If it seems new women’s basketball Coach Robin Pingeton has taken a page from men’s basketball Coach Mike Anderson’s Fastest 40 Minutes in Basketball, it may not be entirely coincidental.

Steady growth in student enrollment, stringent cost-cutting efforts and a bargain struck with Gov. Jay Nixon, BA ’78, JD ’81, to freeze in-state, undergraduate tuition in exchange for only a small reduction in state funding have helped Mizzou avoid some drastic budget cuts.

On Feb. 1, 2010, the Columbia City Council voted 4-3 to allow Columbia residents to keep up to six hens in a secure shelter, away from neighbors. City residents flocked to a local coop-building workshop.